RAMALLAH, Monday, February 14, 2022 (WAFA) – News about the Israeli escalation in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah as well as the major military Israeli raid into a West Bank village hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that despite mounting tensions and a seemingly imminent outbreak of violence, far-right Israeli MK Itamar Ben-Gvir set up an office in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.
The dailies added that the Israeli occupation forces continued their attacks on the neighborhood, closing its western entrance with iron mounds, noting that they also chased out the solidarity activists present in the vicinity of the Salem family's house, threatened with imminent expulsion, and evacuated its surroundings for settlers and extremist Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir, assaulting the families and solidarity activists with rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas and sound bombs, which led to the injury of dozens, and the arrest of seven people.
Commenting on the escalation, President Mahmoud Abbas condemned and warned against the repercussions of what is happening in Jerusalem, particularly in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, from attacks on residents and attempts to take over their properties.
The official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that the continuation of today's Jewish terrorism in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood reflects the reality of Israel as an apartheid state, as reported in the papers.
The dailies reported that 29 Palestinians, including two solidarity activists, were injured, yesterday evening, during the confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the neighborhood.
The papers said that a large forces of the occupation forces stormed last night the town of Al-Silah Al-Harithiya, in the occupied West Bank district of Jenin, and closed all the entrances and roads leading to it.
They reported that Mohammad Abu Salah, 17, was killed after he was shot in the head by an Israeli gunfire, while 20 others were injured, by Israeli gunfire during the major military Israeli raid into the village.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Israeli forces forced two Palestinian families in Sur Baher town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem city, to demolish their homes with their own hands.
They also added that a group of Israeli settlers demolished and vandalized five agricultural rooms belonging to Palestinians in the town of Kafr Ad-Dik to the west of Salfit.
Naji Abu Hmeid, the brother of Palestinian prisoner and cancer-patient Nasser Abu Hmeid who’s serving life in Israeli prisons and also suffering acute pneumonia from lungs cancer, said that a critical setback has been witnessed in his brother’s health condition, as reported in al-Quds.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli repression units raided the sections of the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons of Megiddo and Ofer and brutally assaulted them.
The dailies reported that Palestine recorded 3538 new Covid-19 cases, 18 fatalities, and 5162 recovery cases in the last 24 hours.
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